Amazing news !! Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling has been named the world’s leader in scrap & recycling by Platts, the premier international publication in the recycling industry. A total of 17 other countries had nominations at the awards event held in London this past week and we are very excited to bring the top award home to the USA. We are proudly American owned and operated supporting our local communities ! Congrats and thank you to all of our dedicated, hardworking employees !

Amazing news !! Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling has been named the world’s leader in scrap & recycling by Platts, the premier international publication in the recycling industry. A total of 17 other countries had nominations at the awards event held in London this pastread more

Our cool new infrared camera we installed inside the shredder chamber so the operator and myself can watch the shredding process in live time. Pretty cool upgrade!!

Our cool new infrared camera we installed inside the shredder chamber so the operator and myself can watch the shredding process in live time. Pretty cool upgrade!!

Hardcore Scrapping !!!!

Hardcore Scrapping !!!!

BIG upgrades going on now at our Owego shredder facility. Bigger faster motor and resurfacing of complete facility are projects that we're excited about. Reinvesting in the future of here is my mission number one! (2 photos)

BIG upgrades going on now at our Owego shredder facility. Bigger faster motor and resurfacing of complete facility are projects that we're excited about. Reinvesting in the future of here is my mission number one! (2 photos)

A few weeks ago our scrap company started it's largest project to date and began construction on a new state of the art shredding plant and huge retail scrap operation adjacent to Elwood quality steel just outside of Pittsburgh in New Castle Pa. This project brings me into unchartered territory way out side the comfort zone of Upstate NY and Southern Pa where I operate locations now. This region is the epi center of my Arch enemy competitors Carlos Aquero Metalicos corp ( Neville island) and financier Billionaire Carl Icons (PSC corp) in Canton Ohio. This will be our biggest battle ever going against them right on their home turf. It's last man standing on this battle royal fight of my career. Everyone in the industry thinks im out of my mind for doing this but sometimes as a man it's not about the money or material gain and more about the competitive nature we all have inside. I'm ready to sell everything I own, the wife's ready to run the scale, clover can answer phones and I'll call my dad out of retirement to work the metal shop shear if that's what it takes. I have worked my ass off all these years to get ready for this fight. Carlos, and Carl.....
Time to get out of your corporate offices, park the Yachts, and get ready for the fight of your life. Ill be there soon.

A few weeks ago our scrap company started it's largest project to date and began construction on a new state of the art shredding plant and huge retail scrap operation adjacent to Elwood quality steel just outside of Pittsburgh in New Castle Pa. This project brings me intoread more

Your patronage at The Krebs restaurant in Skaneateles going to a great cause....$5,000 donation made to the Rescue Mission, thank you for coming down to the shredder for a tour!

Your patronage at The Krebs restaurant in Skaneateles going to a great cause....$5,000 donation made to the Rescue Mission, thank you for coming down to the shredder for a tour!

Just want to thank all my employees for delivering the best earnings quarter in the history of our company today !!!! I have the best crew and just cause I don't say much doesn't mean I don't appreciate how hard everyone is working. Trust me, I know this place isn't the right fit for everyone, and I'm not even sure I would want to work for me but for those who chose to stay, I'm so impressed how we have all fought hard In these trying economic times and have been able to employ more people everyday and grow the company when others in our industry have done the opposite. We have set the bar high with these results but I think we can beat it again this upcoming quarter. I'm really happy tonight and couldn't be prouder to own this company !

Just want to thank all my employees for delivering the best earnings quarter in the history of our company today !!!! I have the best crew and just cause I don't say much doesn't mean I don't appreciate how hard everyone is working. Trust me, I know this place isn't the rightread more

My CFO Dan Innarella just won financial executive of the year !
So proud of him !!!

My CFO Dan Innarella just won financial executive of the year !
So proud of him !!!

Was so surprised today that scrap legend Michael Coslov who founded Tube City IMS and sold the company for a bagazillion dollars a while back came to Owego to consult with me and give me advice on my soon-to-be constructed New Castle PA auto shredder and retail scrap facility!!! I learned so much today from one of the most knowledgeable people in our business...he's the equivalent to our industry as Babe Ruth is to baseball!!!

Was so surprised today that scrap legend Michael Coslov who founded Tube City IMS and sold the company for a bagazillion dollars a while back came to Owego to consult with me and give me advice on my soon-to-be constructed New Castle PA auto shredder and retail scrap facility!!!read more

Want to earn $500-$10000 fast?

Want to earn $500-$10000 fast?

Brand new CAT loader delivered today!

Brand new CAT loader delivered today!

Holy Crap we won !!!!!!!!! Unreal, never in a million years would I think this would happen. Highlight of my career tonight. Feel like we were the bad news bears compared to the other guys in the room lol.., felt totally out of place and way out of my league

Holy Crap we won !!!!!!!!! Unreal, never in a million years would I think this would happen. Highlight of my career tonight. Feel like we were the bad news bears compared to the other guys in the room lol.., felt totally out of place and way out of my league

Cool story on CNN last night! Thank you Christopher Moloney for a great story!

Cool story on CNN last night! Thank you Christopher Moloney for a great story!

Upstate Shredding - Ben Weitsman, the East Coast's Largest Privately Held Scrap Metal Processor, is expanding and looking for experienced truck and heavy equipment senior diesel mechanics for our Owego locations!! Candidates must have heavy equipment and diesel truck experience and able to work effectively and efficiently in a fast paced work environment with long hours. Must have impeccable references. Compensation is $75-80,000 salary (dependent on experience), company car provided as well.
Interested candidates, please submit your resume here electronically, email your resume to sdonnelly@upstateshredding.com, or call Stephen Donnelly at 607-687-7777 with questions!

Upstate Shredding - Ben Weitsman, the East Coast's Largest Privately Held Scrap Metal Processor, is expanding and looking for experienced truck and heavy equipment senior diesel mechanics for our Owego locations!! Candidates must have heavy equipment and diesel truck experienceread more

Upstate Shredding - Ben Weitsman, the East Coast's Largest Privately Held Scrap Metal Processor, is looking for four experienced metal sorters for our Owego and Ithaca locations!
Candidates must be experienced in weighing and processing non-ferrous metals (Copper, Aluminum, Brass, etc.). Must be able to pass a background check and drug test.
Interested candidates, please submit your resume here electronically, email your resume to sdonnelly@upstateshredding.com, or call Stephen Donnelly at 607-687-7777 with questions!

Upstate Shredding - Ben Weitsman, the East Coast's Largest Privately Held Scrap Metal Processor, is looking for four experienced metal sorters for our Owego and Ithaca locations!
Candidates must be experienced in weighing and processing non-ferrous metals (Copper, Aluminum,read more

Upstate Shredding and Ben Weitsman would like to invite you to ISRI Empire Chapter cocktail hour and dinner !

Upstate Shredding and Ben Weitsman would like to invite you to ISRI Empire Chapter cocktail hour and dinner !

Thanks Dan Bazile from Channel 13 in Albany for doing a story on us in today's news !

Thanks Dan Bazile from Channel 13 in Albany for doing a story on us in today's news !

Today's grand opening of our deep water port in Albany New York represents the most important business move I've made in my career. Was very surprised to see customers lining up an hour before we opened. I have an amazing staff up there !! At last night's pre-opening staff meeting, I asked the staff if there was anything I could do for them. One quiet kid spoke up, and said 'Boss, please let us beat the crap out of Sims (our major competitor)'. That one comment made me realize that taking a calculated risk with this facility was definitely the right thing to do.

Today's grand opening of our deep water port in Albany New York represents the most important business move I've made in my career. Was very surprised to see customers lining up an hour before we opened. I have an amazing staff up there !! At last night's pre-opening staffread more

BEN WEITSMAN OF ALBANY NOW OPEN !!! The Capital Region has never seen anything like this !!! We pay the area's highest prices, are open 7 days a week, and have long hours for your convenience with the BEST customer service ever !!! Come see the area's newest, cleanest fully paved port and retail scrap metal facility at 300 Smith Blvd in the Port of Albany !!!

BEN WEITSMAN OF ALBANY NOW OPEN !!! The Capital Region has never seen anything like this !!! We pay the area's highest prices, are open 7 days a week, and have long hours for your convenience with the BEST customer service ever !!! Come see the area's newest, cleanest fullyread more

I'm trying to keep expanding and strengthening the company .....

I'm trying to keep expanding and strengthening the company .....

Very excited for our biggest expansion to date! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

Very excited for our biggest expansion to date! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

I feel lucky to be able to be headquartered in Owego. It is a wonderful place to do business, it's where I grew up, and no matter how large the company becomes, my base will always be there.

I feel lucky to be able to be headquartered in Owego. It is a wonderful place to do business, it's where I grew up, and no matter how large the company becomes, my base will always be there.

Building a company is kind of like putting together a pro base ball team. I have been trying to entice the best people in the scrap industry across the country to come here and try out and play, and even though they are mostly all very talented, most just don't fit in on the roster when they get here within the team I have assembled. Think I will change course 180 degrees and instead of trying to hire the "superstars" that might be set in their ways and not be hungry and passionate, I think ill start bringing guys up from the minors and start training and teaching and giving them a shot to make it big. Excited to see the potential of people striving to make the majors!

Building a company is kind of like putting together a pro base ball team. I have been trying to entice the best people in the scrap industry across the country to come here and try out and play, and even though they are mostly all very talented, most just don't fit in on theread more

Tired of scrap yards being eyesores to the communities They operate in. My job is to make them an asset, not a detriment to the neighbors surrounding our plants.
I have started bulldozing every yard I'm buying and totally redoing them. Just finished Owego NY feeder yard and Binghamton just about done. I'm going to change the whole image people
and government have of our industry. My names on it so I have to put extra pride in it. No more mud, no more dust, no more ugly piles. Better for environment, better for customers, better for the community and better bottom line. Win win for everyone ...

Tired of scrap yards being eyesores to the communities They operate in. My job is to make them an asset, not a detriment to the neighbors surrounding our plants.
I have started bulldozing every yard I'm buying and totally redoing them. Just finished Owego NY feeder yard andread more

Business first, shareholders last: Coslov
PITTSBURGH - Publicly held metals recyclers must focus on their business first and foremost and not on pleasing shareholders, I. Michael Coslov... Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

Business first, shareholders last: Coslov
PITTSBURGH - Publicly held metals recyclers must focus on their business first and foremost and not on pleasing shareholders, I. Michael Coslov... Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

Pushing extra hard for 2013. More focused and committed than ever!
OWEGO -Upstate Shredding, LLC., the largest, privately owned scrap dealer on the East Coast, is projecting it will continue its fast-growing ways this year with...

Pushing extra hard for 2013. More focused and committed than ever!
OWEGO -Upstate Shredding, LLC., the largest, privately owned scrap dealer on the East Coast, is projecting it will continue its fast-growing ways this year with...

Metal recycler to build $15M Port of Albany shipping center

Metal recycler to build $15M Port of Albany shipping center

Going global
Weitsman expanding scrap metal empire with $20M facility, recent company acquisitions
OWEGO - When the market cannot come to you, you go to the market.
A burgeoning scrap metal export market is prompting Adam Weitsman to build a $20 million facility at the Port of Albany that will help his company find new markets for recycled steel, iron and other metals.
With nine scrap metal facilities in New York and Pennsylvania - most purchased in the past few years - and access to waterways, Upstate Shredding LLC, and company president Weitsman, are poised to sell scrap metal to steel mills and other customers around the world.
Upstate Shredding's facilities are on schedule to process one million tons of ferrous materials - steel and iron - and 200 million pounds of non-ferrous - all other metals - by 2014, Weitsman says.
"Its a great time in this business," said Bill Johnson, director of political and public affairs for the Washington-based Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. "There's a lot of historical scrap out there."
Because commodity prices are high, people are more likely to bring scrap to a recycling yard because they are paid near record-high prices for the material that, in the past, might have been left lying around.
Customers bring all types of objects to Weitsman's 11 facilities, including automobiles, steel, batteries, copper, aluminum, brass, wire and other items. Some items - like automobiles — need to be put through the company's Owego shredder before being sent to a steel mill, while other things can be shipped from any of the facilities after being processed, Weitsman said.
"We make more scrap than we can possibly consume domestically," said Johnson. As a result, scrap metal dealers nationwide are trying to find foreign markets to take the surplus material. Scrap metal is a $100 billion business annually, with 40 percent of the material going overseas. Turkey, India and China are the world's largest scrap metal customers.
When his Port of Albany facility is operating, Weitsman will contract with shippers to move his products to domestic and international customers.
"You need a lot of scrap to make the port a viable venture," Weitsman said. "This is my dream project and the company is really coming into its own."
It's been a business dream for 10 years, he said, but he needed to bide his time while he purchased enough facilities to collect the amount of scrap he needed. With facilities in Binghamton, Owego, Syracuse, Jamestown, Rochester, Buffalo, Liberty, Ithaca and Scranton, Pa., Weitsman said he now produces more than 10 times the amount of scrap he used to, giving him the ability to make the new port facility a wise investment. Each ship can haul 30,000 tons of scrap.
"Our goal is to do $1 billion per year in sales and this port will help us to reach that level," Weitsman said.
Upstate Shredding is in the midst of a turnaround over the past five years, Weitsman said. With about 30 employees and massive debt, an improved outlook in metal recycling led to improved conditions for the business. Weitsman divested himself of investments in other businesses to focus on recycling and paying off debt. The company went from 30 employees and two facilities, to 300 employees and 11 scrap metal locations. The new port facility will mean another 100 jobs, 60 to work at the port and 40 truck drivers, Weitsman said.
"We're growing the company with very little debt," he said, noting many purchases are largely made with available cash reserves.
Upstate Shredding is currently ranked 18th in tons of material processed among scrap metal companies, both public and private, in North America, according to Recylcing Today.
"We have the potential to be one of the largest scrap companies in North America," he said. "I'd like to see us in the top 10 and the port will allow us to do that."

Going global
Weitsman expanding scrap metal empire with $20M facility, recent company acquisitions
OWEGO - When the market cannot come to you, you go to the market.
A burgeoning scrap metal export market is prompting Adam Weitsman to build a $20 million facility at the Port ofread more

American Metal Market feature story! Scrap firms set to battle for Albany port. Please click on the photo to read the full article! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

American Metal Market feature story! Scrap firms set to battle for Albany port. Please click on the photo to read the full article! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

We are trying to expand the company every single day!

We are trying to expand the company every single day!

Exciting news!!! We just purchased at a bankruptcy auction today the old Ferrotech scrap yard in New Castle, PA on the Ohio border right directly adjacent to Elwood Quality Steel!!! We've done a lot of other locations but I'm most excited about this one!!! Ben Weitsman of New Castle will be opening in approximately 6 months, can't wait!!!

Exciting news!!! We just purchased at a bankruptcy auction today the old Ferrotech scrap yard in New Castle, PA on the Ohio border right directly adjacent to Elwood Quality Steel!!! We've done a lot of other locations but I'm most excited about this one!!! Ben Weitsman of Newread more

Was at the Scrap Institute Meeting last night in Weehawken New Jersey. Kim asked me to go get her a drink at the bar and when I got thru the crowd I realized I was stuck right dab in the middle of 40 Big Older mean looking Sims, EMR and Metalico guys right on their own turf ! (Those are my competitors who hate me more than life itself). I felt like that guy Owen Wilson in that Horrible movie "Behind enemy lines". I made it out safe, Kim got her tasty drink and I have lived to fight them all another day ..........

Was at the Scrap Institute Meeting last night in Weehawken New Jersey. Kim asked me to go get her a drink at the bar and when I got thru the crowd I realized I was stuck right dab in the middle of 40 Big Older mean looking Sims, EMR and Metalico guys right on their own turf !read more

So tomorrow I finally start building my Export port in Albany New York after 14 long years of working on it. Very nervous as this is my largest project to date and now that the time is here I'm kinda freaking out lol. I realized last night that I have no Clue how to load a ship or barge with scrap and have never even seen one being done in person. Last night to practice up, Clover my 3 year old daughter and myself got out her new Pirate ship toy and started loading it up with M and M's, pennies, and dried banana chips. After an hour practice, I Never realized how easy this export gig would be. I'm not nervous a bit anymore ! Sims, Schnitzer and EMR (our competition) here we come !!!!!!!!!!

So tomorrow I finally start building my Export port in Albany New York after 14 long years of working on it. Very nervous as this is my largest project to date and now that the time is here I'm kinda freaking out lol. I realized last night that I have no Clue how to load a shipread more

Feature story in American Metal Market today, 'Upstate Shredding signs lease for NY port facility' Please click on the photo if you would like to read it! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

Feature story in American Metal Market today, 'Upstate Shredding signs lease for NY port facility' Please click on the photo if you would like to read it! Reproduced with permission from American Metal Market (amm.com)

With our 3 biggest competitors, Sims, Metalico, and Schnitzer reporting the worst news ever in regards to their earnings and announced mass layoffs, I, in turn, am so proud of my 300 plus employees at the same time for posting the best quarter in our company history ending Sept. I love that we are kicking ass even though I have never worked this hard in my whole life. I appreciate everyone that works here so much even though I'm kinda grumpy all the time. We have taken a company in a town of 4000 people, gone head to head with the biggest companies in the world and kicked them in their head really really hard. Kim and I have decided this year to again leave 100 percent of the profits in the business to strengthen up our walls and buy new ammo to pound these guys even more. Yes, I want to make a good living, but more important I really get off competing against these guys who underestimated us, and now are realizing that that they can not beat my teams passion to win. You can teach people about scrap but can't teach people to have passion. My guys have it, its showing, and I could not be more proud. In 2013 my crew and I will travel and battle these guys on their home turf.
I get off just thinking about it ...............

With our 3 biggest competitors, Sims, Metalico, and Schnitzer reporting the worst news ever in regards to their earnings and announced mass layoffs, I, in turn, am so proud of my 300 plus employees at the same time for posting the best quarter in our company history ending Sept.read more

A prestigious New York City investment bank talks about our company for the first time in their latest investment report...I'm very excited!!!

A prestigious New York City investment bank talks about our company for the first time in their latest investment report...I'm very excited!!!